Some interesting Altivec figures

[Aragorn]

http://n0cgi.distributed.net/speed/
OGR
my AMD Athlon XP Barton 2600+
14,937,961 nodes/sec

PowerPC 744x/745x G4 1000
10,680,517 nodes/sec

[Aragorn]

3. I’m not aware of a Barton core with a “2600+. model” number. Who knows what AMD can think of next?

My Athlon XP Barton is a 2600+
it runs at 1.92GHz

[Aragorn]

"Oh, and isn't L2 cache external? Seems to me you can get a lot more number-crunching speed by not using external cache at all, and I think the RC5 core does fit in L1."

Depends on the processor AMD k6-2 have external level2 old pentium had external. Those slot pentium3
have sort of external level2. And PPC 604 and 603 have external level2 if they have any at all.
Dont know how it is with new PPC chips.
k6-3, Athlon(XP,64), duron, opteron, p4 all have level2 in the processor. In the case of the k6-3 since it used normal super socket7 like the k6-2 it used the cache on the moderboard as level3
 :-o